Wine Debugger Improvements Are On The Way, Start Of LLVM LLDB Support
With Wine 5.0 having released and the Git tree back open for feature work, we're quite looking forward to see what new material will land following this feature freeze that was in effect the past two months...
The Initial AMD Family 19h Support Sent In For Linux 5.6 EDAC Driver
SUSE's Borislav Petkov sent in the (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) updates for the Linux 5.6 kernel on this first day of the new merge window...
Habana Labs Aims To Upstream Gaudi AI Accelerator Code For Linux 5.7~5.8
Habana Labs, the AI start-up being bought out by Intel, is still striving towards upstreaming their Gaudi processor support code for AI training...
Linux 5.6 "HWMON" Changes Sent In With Big AMD Improvements
Following the Linux 5.5 kernel release one of the first pull requests sent in is for the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates. Dominating the HWMON interest this cycle is a long overdue SATA temperature monitoring driver and vastly improving the k10temp driver for AMD Zen desktop and server CPUs...
The CUPS Printing System Lead Developer Has Left Apple, Begins Developing "LPrint"
More than a decade after Apple acquired the CUPS source-code and its lead developer, that developer, Michael Sweet, recently parted ways with Apple...
Linux 5.5 Released With Many Hardware Support Improvements
Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 5.5 as stable...
MPV Player 0.32 Released With RAR5 Support, Bash Completion
MPV 0.32 is out today as the newest update to this open-source video player based on MPlayer...
Kubuntu Focus KDE Laptop Launches New $1,795 USD Base Model
Formally announced earlier this month was Kubuntu Focus as the most polished KDE laptop we've ever tested. Besides offering a great KDE desktop experience, the Kubuntu Focus offers high-end specs while now there is a slightly cheaper base model introduced...
Linux 5.6 Is Looking Like It Will Be Spectacular With A Long List Of Features
Linux 5.5 is likely to be released later today and with that are many new features. But as soon as 5.5 is released it marks the opening of the Linux 5.6 merge window and this next kernel has us particularly exciting... It's certainly shaping up to be one of the most exciting kernel cycles in recent times with many blockbuster features and improvements...
The Dracut Initramfs Generator Is Slow - Could Be Much Faster As Shown By Distri's Minitrd
Dracut that is used for generating the initramfs image on Linux distributions like Fedora / RHEL, Debian, openSUSE, and many other distributions could be much faster...